Humor of all types is notoriously subjective. That's true not only between different people but even within an individual at different times. This subjectivity is often masked when your in a group because laughter is contagious.

Humor of all types is notoriously subjective. That's true not only between different people but even within an individual at different times. This subjectivity is often masked when your in a group because laughter is contagious.

It's always harder satirize what you like rather than what you dislike.

To paraphrase president Kennedy's inaugural, the torch has been passed to a new generation of cartoonists and they are doing really interesting stuff, taking the old cliches and breathing new life into them and inventing new ones. This doesn't mean the previous generation of which I'm a charter member isn't doing good stuff but this new material is invigorating everyone.

Primitive, naive drawing can also be good drawing but it's hard to pull off. I don't think most submitters realize that.

There's usually nothing in a guy's joke in which we have to understand what's going on in someone else's mind.

Humor levels the playing field. I understood that early on - that was something I had.